Nouns (4)
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upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche, arriviste
n. a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
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Adjectives (4)
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nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a)
adj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
Fuzzynyms (16)
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cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity
n. a person of no influence
imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag
n. one who is playfully mischievous
troublemaker, trouble maker, troubler, mischief-maker, bad hat
n. someone who deliberately stirs up trouble
Synonyms (19)
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arty
adj. showily imitative of art or artists
artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty
adj. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming
high-flown, high-sounding, inflated
adj. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da
adj. affectedly genteel
jumped-up
adj. (British informal) upstart
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
sesquipedalian
adj. given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"
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nouveau-riche
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